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Tending my garden, cheering the Ducks
The weather was much too lovely this weekend in Portland to spend time indoors blogging. I mowed the grass (the push mower fell apart just as I finished, so I hope we’ve reached…
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Next Up at City Council, 9/26/07
The Portland City Council’s Agenda for Wednesday, September 26 has a couple of items that particularly interest me. Under Citizen Communications, 1132 Request of Walter Valenta to address Council regarding update on the…
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80% of Success, Part 2: The other 20%
In most City of Portland projects, there’s a process and a product. Often, a good, inclusive, thoughtful process leads to a useful product. Sometimes, a botched process can still have a good outcome…
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80% of Success is Showing Up
Woody Allen The success of the VisionPDX project was evident in Portland City Hall last night. Not in the stack of paper books, but in who showed up. Attending the Portland City Council…
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Stuff and Fluff
Alert reader Pete Jacobsen e-mailed me on Monday, reviewing the “Challenges” section at the end of the VisionPDX document and pointing out some significant assumptions and serious concerns in them. I replied that…
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Good points, bad points, in VisionPDX
Hoo boy, I worry about who will be implementing this VisionPDX. Maybe if nobody does, that would be for the best in some cases, even though some parts are good. The holes in…